FINALS POINTERS Flashcards
Where metabolic exchange between the blood and the tissue takes place
CAPILLARIES
Lined by a single continuous layer of endothelial cells supported by a basement membrane
CAPILLARIES
Lumen is large enough that only one leukocyte or red cell can pass
CAPILLARIES
Characterized by openings called JUNCTIONS where nutrients and excretory materials pass
CAPILLARIES
RBCs and platelets DO NOT leave the vessel lumen
CAPILLARIES
CAPILLARIES The blood vascular system has a continuous lining that consists of a single layer of
ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
are simple endothelial tubes that connect the arterial and venous sides of the circulation
Capillaries
are surrounded by a thin sheath of delicate collagenous and reticular fibers and accompanied by occasional perivascular cells (PERICYTES)
Capillaries
CONTINUOUS CAPILLARY
Muscles, Lung, CNS, and skin
FENESTRATED CAPILLARY
Intestinal mucosa,
endocrine glands,
renal glomerulus, and
pancreas
SINUSOIDAL
CAPILLARY
Liver,
bone marrow, and
spleen
capillaries are vessels intermediate between the arteries and capillaries and veins and capillaries
ARTERIAL (pre-) and VENOUS (post-)
have wider lumens and contain scattered smooth muscles
ARTERIAL CAPILLARIES (Metarterioles)
Oriented LONGITUDINALLY unlike that of arterioles (which are transversely oriented)
ARTERIAL CAPILLARIES
Some ARTERIAL CAPILLARIES posses __ that exists in sites where capillaries arise from metarterioles
PRECAPILLARY SPHINCTERS